Currents July 2020
This month’s tenet focuses on choices and their consequences, so I’ve paid close attention to this subject all month. Conditions in the world, our community, and my heart provided ample…
Lessons for my Children: On the Art of Good Citizenship
Spring is a season stuffed full: of damp grass and flowers emerging riotously from the earth, of the sussurating sound of bicycle chains and the grate of lawnmowers blistering the…
Votes in “Small” Elections Have Big Impact
“We are free to choose and willingly accept responsibility for our choices.” At the outset of 2020, there seemed to be so much promise: a fresh start and the promise…
Art – Choices and Goals
I love art. For me a painting or a photo can explain feelings and emotions better than any spoken language I know. In my home I have all kinds…
Ukuy Warmi Ecuador
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Cottage Industry: The Ukuy Cottage in Ecuador – Seeds for Changing Lives
The seeds for the new cottage in Ecuador were planted in 2016 when Big Ocean representatives attended Habitat III there. Vilma Sagebin saw Ana Carolina Gualinga Cuji (also called Anita)…
Meet Big Ocean: Vilma Sagebin, Woman of Faith
Vilma Sagebin had an up-close and personal view of Big Ocean’s beginnings through her daughter and our founder, Carolina Allen. Carolina had returned from attending a funeral in Hawaii where…
Victim or Victory
All around us there are things that are completely out of our control. I cannot change the past. I cannot change my children’s minds or make them into the people…